LFW Diary: The mystery of British megawattage at PPQ

The "Calgary" is a collaboration with Bill Amberg , whose little shop of leathers is around the corner from Amed's Notting Hill flat, and comes in six limited-edition styles (black pony, orange patent...) for £950 (about $1,500 CAD). There's also a "crowdsourced" version: you can go to the...

Luckily I've got razor-grips on my Camilla Skovgaards, which have already been photographed, in early Jak & Jil style, more times than my face. Er, I won't take it personally. After all, I took the red-eye quite literally; if I were any more bloodshot I'd be Charlie Sheen. Crimson was the...

If last night was about the British sort of celebrity, today was about my sort: true fashion characters. Front row at Charles Anastase this morning (a properly wet one, I might add) was Charlotte Dellal, exquisite shoe designer and Titian titan of society, her waves unruffled by the rain....

She celebrated her tenth anniversary with a serious homecoming: a massive show at the pomp-and-circumstantial British Museum. It had a retrospective flair, unsurprisingly, and spared no expense—at least not in the textile department. Standouts: Spanish lace "tattooed" onto peach silk, an...

Designer Emma Hill told British Vogue the other day that she'd watched the Wes Anderson film with her son, but this morning's show opened with a line read from the original book. Funnily enough, the Roald Dahl classic was also The Row‘s major reference point. At Mulberry, though, it was a...

It's all very confusing and probably illegal in Arizona.
First up: Mr. J.W. Anderson. I snuck a glimpse at his presentation in the beautiful, balconied Portico Rooms at Somerset House, after taking one look at the never-ending line for ISSA London. That's what happens when Kate Middleton...

2 Responses to "LFW Diary: Mary Katrantzou's garden of delights, Marios Schwab's pearls and perforations"
Alaykka says:
I especially love the "ceramic vase" designs! :) It's so exquisite and the colors are really pretty. These are the kinds of clothes I'd want to wear.
My favourite...

Sure enough, the first look was a super-minimal cream sheath with black leather dots, in rows of varying size, appliqued on sleeves and skirt. Then came a black wool capelet and a swingy leather midi-skirt, both perforated with great big polka dots. The circle motif spiralled into delightful...

After a so-so Emilio de la Morena show⎯he went minimal-geometric with his party dresses, which doesn't suit him well⎯I decided to make Fashion East my last show of LFW. Lulu Kennedy‘s ingenious new-talent showcase has been going ten years strong, and in the two previous seasons I've...

Wonder how they feel about their industry fame being subjugated to Hollywood fame at a fashion show?
2. Meanwhile, in the front row, too many pretty faces ⎯most of them belonging to boys. I think one of them is about to be Mr. Kate Moss... yes, a quick Twitter search reveals 'tis indeed...